Evan Ebel kept ties with imprisoned members of the white supremacist 211 Crew in the weeks before police say he killed Colorado's corrections chief, documents obtained by The Denver Post show.

The investigative reports outline the relationship among members of the prison gang, women they knew outside prison and Ebel.

The documents are related to the case against Stevie Marie Anne Vigil, 22, who appeared in a federal courtroom Friday to face charges that she provided Ebel with the 9mm Smith & Wesson handgun used in the killings of Department of Corrections chief Tom Clements on March 19 and Denver pizza delivery driver Nathan Leon two days earlier.

FILE -- Stevie Marie Ann Vigil, waits for an elevator after her court appearance at the Arapahoe County Court house Tuesday afternoon, April 30th, 2013. (Andy Cross, The Denver Post)

Arapahoe County prosecutors withdrew their case against Vigil on Friday in light of the new federal charges. A judge ordered her to remain in federal detention this weekend.

Authorities have previously said they are investigating whether Ebel, 28, acted alone in the killings or whether the killings had gang ties. But the new documents offer a glimpse into the extent of his ties with the prison gang even after his January release on parole.

A woman who said she once dated one of the gang's most notorious members, Jeremiah Barnum, and later dated a paroled associate of Ebel's, James Sager, told investigators she spoke with Ebel on the phone about a month before the killings.

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The documents say Ebel asked if he could get from her some photographs to send to another 211 Crew member, Nathan Thill, who is serving a life sentence for the 1997 killing of an African immigrant, Oumar Dia. The photos he sought were of Thill's son and of Barnum, who pleaded guilty to being an accessory to Dia's slaying.

The woman told investigators Thill likely gave Ebel her number. Records indicated at least 15 calls between the woman and Ebel's phone, although she told investigators she didn't remember that many calls.

When she met Ebel, she brought along a female friend who eventually developed a romantic relationship with Ebel. On March 15, after the two had grown close — and she saw him with the gun — he told his new girlfriend that he "had a plan for several years and his relationship with her was not going to deter it," according to the reports.

But the woman told investigators Ebel wouldn't explain his plan because "law enforcement would take her child away to get information out of her."

Vigil, who knew Ebel from childhood and kept in touch with him in prison, also thought of herself as Ebel's girlfriend and told investigators they had a "very intimate relationship."

She paid an Englewood gun store $611.97 cash for the handgun and bullets March 6, the documents show. She told investigators she bought the gun for her personal protection and kept it in a pink plastic bag in the trunk of a friend's car.

She said she noticed the gun was missing about the same time she learned that Ebel had died after a shootout with deputies in Texas, documents show.

The attorney who represented Vigil in the Arapahoe County case has said Ebel intimidated her and forced her to give him the gun.

Ebel's other girlfriend, who is not charged in the case, told investigators that she was present March 8, when Ebel met with two women who gave him a pink plastic bag. When she asked Ebel what was in the bag, he "put his finger to his lips in a 'shhh' kind of motion and pointed to his ankle monitor."

Authorities say Ebel cut off the monitor five days before shooting Clements as he answered the door of his Monument home.

Ebel took the pink bag to his father's law office. He left with an empty bag.

Vigil told authorities that Ebel told her he had no choice but to join the 211 Crew because "he needed people when he got to prison." He said he "did what he needed to do for the gang, but it didn't matter anymore because he was getting his life together," according to the documents.

When Vigil heard what Ebel was accused of doing, she said she was stunned, according to one of Vigil's friends who is a witness in the case. That friend also said Vigil threatened to turn Ebel in for the gun after they had an argument. Vigil told investigators she last spoke with Ebel on March 10.

Lt. Jeff Kramer, a spokesman for the El Paso County Sheriff's Office, which is investigating the case, would not comment on the specifics of the documents but said the case is still active.

"We've been open with the fact that Ebel is a 211 Crew member, and he associated with other members," he said. "To me, (the documents) it's not all that revealing."

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